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Install BT Virus Protect on a secondary disk drive

John_Carrey — Fri, 09 Jul 2021 10:04:37 GMT

Hi,

I find BT Virus Protect is taking up too much space on my solid state drive C: I want to re install it on my larger D:.

Windows 10 re-direction of new apps button, has no effect and the program is just re installed back on C:.

Is there any way to direct a new install to save itself on to a 😧 drive ?

Regards,

John C

Re: Install BT Virus Protect on a secondary disk drive

gg30340 — Fri, 09 Jul 2021 10:24:19 GMT

I would suspect that it must be on the same drive as the operating system because it runs in conjunction with the operating system at start up and that would not be the case if it was on a different drive which would only be found after the operating system has started.

Re: Install BT Virus Protect on a secondary disk drive

John_Carrey — Fri, 09 Jul 2021 12:28:53 GMT

Yes I see your point. Windows 10 and other essential programs are getting bigger with each update and my solid state drive C: can't cope. I'm boxed in and don't have enough space to run the programs I need. Thanks for the quick reply.

Regards

John

Re: Install BT Virus Protect on a secondary disk drive

licquorice — Fri, 09 Jul 2021 12:54:36 GMT

So don't bother with BT virus protect, just use Windows Defender which is installed as well anyway.

Re: Install BT Virus Protect on a secondary disk drive

ozsat — Fri, 09 Jul 2021 13:02:09 GMT

I found virus software was getting so big and slowing my system down too - tried 2-3 different 'big' names.

I leave it to Windows 10 now to look after itself.

@licquoricewrote:
So don't bother with BT virus protect, just use Windows Defender which is installed as well anyway.

Re: Install BT Virus Protect on a secondary disk drive

John_Carrey — Sun, 11 Jul 2021 09:44:33 GMT

Yes you are right. I Have dumped BT Virus Protect for being to bloated. My PC is now behaving much better without it. thanks every one for their comments. May be BT will get the message. Big is not Beautiful....

John C.